 I guess we're just trying to have an unbiased look at it people. They're trying to erase us Would they like it though if the love interest in this movie is a beautiful tall white man Do you feel empathy for white people America is only 58% white? So I think that Hey, you're not following the Danish tradition I feel like if you're a minority in America or even part of the majority you should be having this discussion right now Welcome everybody to the hot pot boys David and Andrew here. We are going to be discussing Disney's black little mermaid controversy I'm sure you've heard of it, but let's take the conversation a little bit deeper under the sea That deep. All right play the trailer No, she was singing with that Mariah Carey Whitney Houston falsetto on the run. That's not how I remember beautiful white aerial princess singing it Well, I do believe that the original story was a Danish story So unless there's a lot of black Danish people, why did they make the little mum a black? All right all jokes aside guys We got to address some pretty big questions here that are concerning Pretty much everybody in America right now guys one is forced diversity in the media good You know at the risk of pissing off one group of but helping another and also to Should we empathize with the white people who feel like America is slowly being taken away from them? And the third question is what are some solutions to help solve this race war or are there no solutions? If you're excited by this video, please hit that like button right now help us out with the algorithm. Anyways, David Let's get into it. Oh my goodness over the past week I don't know if it's like making a mountain out of a moho if it's blow it out of proportion Andrew I might have watched like 20 different opinions on aerial being cast with Halle Bailey as Aerial obviously instead of like a white red-headed cartoon. It's a black girl now What are the main kind of reactions that people are having? I mean obviously I would say this I would say some more conservative white people are against it, right? They feel like it's a razor and they feel like they're losing America and they're having woken his shove down their throat I would say some, you know educated black women have been like, oh my gosh This is so great to have representation and what does it mean? And then I would actually say Andrew a lot of black guys that I know are just kind of like man Whatever, I don't even care about aerial or like this Disney stuff Give me a real character that actually show some black empowerment sort of like Black Panther and that has been the general spectrum Obviously as Asians, I don't know. I don't know what the Asian response has been I haven't even heard anybody Asian people even comment on this I guess we're just trying to have an unbiased look at it people I did hear some people go well What do you think if we would have casted somebody else as Mulan and then I kind of thought about it And I was like, you know, I wouldn't be against seeing it as long as they could speak Chinese and they could do everything Hey, you don't want to use Mulan as an example because there are like a ton of Mulan movies with Chinese girls playing here So, you know, maybe if we had a non-Chinese Mulan, it would be kind of interesting No, honestly, I would think Gabrielle Union as Mulan would be kind of fire. She kind of looks Asian to me Um, all right So I think like at the end of the day organic diversity is probably what sounds the best in most people's eyes, right? Something where a different culture or a different type of person is introduced to America gets so popular That it's essentially becomes part of America Right, you are referring to things like Asian food coming in from obviously foreign soil Now words like omakase, kimchi, boba, you know, mai-take mushroom or whatever They're all in Webster's dictionary because they've been proliferated all across America People love Asian food and they're gonna continue to love it more and more at years to come Andrew Hip-Hop emerged from the black African-American experience White people felt no like nothing real I mean, they did like think it was bad for the kids But they didn't really go against it in the sense of like put more white people in it Because obviously I think white people were actually owning Hip-Hop on the back end and stuff like that However, Andrew, when it comes to these European stories, do they have a point? All right So I thought it was kind of funny to see white people come out of the woodwork and start being like Hey, you're not following the Danish tradition and I'm like, hey man For a lot of white people, you guys weren't claiming your European roots I'm not saying all of them were but a lot of them were just like, you know I'm just white like I'm just a mixture of this and this and this and this and this And all of a sudden you're like taking extra pride in the Danish roots I'm like guys, I'm like hey name something Danish other than the cream cheese pastries with the blueberries Well, I think you know McDonald's is serving a Danish pastry now You know for the longest time I do think that Americans were just like well You know my forefathers may came from Europe But I'm just an American and y'all can be like me And then you get to be American that happens to just look like a not American But you can have my culture would they like it though if the love interest in this movie Because we don't know what he looks like yet is a beautiful tall white man Would that make up for it? I think where the white guy gets with the hot black mermaid Are they going to be okay with that guys? You're going to be okay with that? Yeah, as Asians guys who do not have a dog in this fight. I'd like to see it I'm sure some of the fish will be Asian That's like people think we are the fish people But yeah, I'm pretty sure like the other like humans in the story are probably not Asian I mean, there are also some like semantics about it like yo Andrew Asians didn't get ghost in the shell We didn't get avatar obviously now the new quantum leap which was a famous nerd show from the 1990s Is being played by Raymond Lee who's a Korean guy is that like wokeness being shoved down people's throat If I'm a white nerd fan and I don't like the remake that has a non white person in it Does that make me racist? I don't know. I feel like they're trying to make me racist I know a lot of the excuse for ghost in the shell was that oh, she's an android So she could be any ethnicity it could be scarlet Johansson. Well, guess what? Mermaids aren't really a race either. It's a made-up thing. So it could be any race too Oh, and I believe the original origin story of a half fish half woman person came from Syria Oh, oh, you want to go back to the old old mermaid tail the old little mermaid tail So the crab is actually an Englishman right but then in the 1989 animated film They made him a Caribbean guy who sings Calypso music. Okay, so that was already changing it But you were okay with that because it was the crab but now that it's the mermaid You're like, no, no, no, no, we got to draw the line Well, I'm okay with the crab being shonda paul, but uh, I have to keep the minorities out of the a-rolls All right guys, we got to answer a question David because you know, I don't you know We're not here to just like make fun of white people because I I'm trying to empathize with them because to be honest, they feel like some of their characters are getting taken away They're deleted once you have a black mermaid is never going to be white again. Right? I mean, that's the theory That's the feeling also like they just feel like bits of america Are just becoming less and less white and they're losing it and they're losing their power when maybe these white people didn't do anything wrong You know, honestly, my massage therapist was actually is white He works on my isos on the side of my leg And he actually went on a crazy rant the other day when I was getting my legs worked out about how he didn't like How, you know, they're just forcing wokeness down people's throats and he goes, you know what, man I just really missed the 90s man. The 90s were the best. They were so much better And then I was kind of asking him why he thinks that and he was just like, I don't know why it's so much better I did some research Andrew in 1990 america was 81 white In 2022 america is only 58 white So I think that to be honest a lot of white people are dealing with this fact That america is becoming less white. So they're starting to see more minority faces in places that they didn't expect to see Like I said, I think white people expect to see minority faces in the mba in hip hop in asian food in latin food But they're not used to minority faces taking traditionally white spots Yeah, I mean man, I'm trying to imagine myself as like a Middle to lower middle class like wal-mart cashier who's like Feeling like they can't tell their white daughter that she could be cool because all the cool women are gonna have to be black Or latino now, you know what I mean? Like I'm not saying that like Obviously, I still think white people are in a great position in america But anytime you lose anything there's that feeling like, oh my gosh, this is getting taken away from me I remember during the pandemic where um All the restaurants were open, but the bars were closed down and I was like, I'm chilling because I like asian restaurants They're still open But a lot of white people were like fleeing new york because they were like, I can't go to my favorite bar I'm like, yeah, that's because you had like a thousand bars you like to go to so you lost the most because you were Up the most too. You had the most to lose Yeah, well, even if a 60 point league is caught to 35 andre it's still negative 25 on the mathematic charts The truth is guys There are a lot of different types of white people in america Right and some of them feel like they deserve all the success that they have or at least the dominant narrative because they may Not have individual family, you know financial Whatever success but like I would rank people in terms of like white people, right? How they view the new black little mermaid or this potentially dispossession or replacement theory I don't you know, I don't want to extrapolate you too far into those But those theories do have some philosophical alignment here andrew I would rank them on a negative 2.5 to a zero To a positive 2.5 scale andrew and I would say people that are a negative 2.5 That's definitely fox news being like, you know, they're trying to erase us They are not making us feel cool about ourselves We need to stop this and we need to elect leaders that stop this people in the zero are probably like Hey guys, is this even a big deal? I don't even want to think about race Like I don't even see her as colored. I'm colorblind Can we just stop talking about race and just talk about something else? How the weather's real nice lately? Oh, there's a cold spell on the eastern front and then there's people andrew a positive 2.5 that are like Oh my gosh We are just beginning to atone for the sins of white people and what we have done to black people Or what we've done to other minorities and this is just a small drop in the bucket of what we're willing to give To make things right and I'll tell you this andrew there is like like Just different segments of white people distributed all across this spectrum So it's very difficult to speak on behalf of all of them And remember remember people who are mad about the whole race thing in media, especially like movie characters getting swapped around Remember the elite rich white people that are actually running this country. Do not care I don't know if it's like a whole crazy Illuminati ploy to like keep you distracted With all these racial things, you know while they're just out there making money moving the market taking Shorting the economy millions of dollars raising the inflation rates I know like Like I know it's tough to see them as an enemy because it's more easier to see someone right across from you as the enemy That looks different. Yes, but there's a different culture and sings the falsetto runs differently Yeah, it's easier because it's in your face. It's media. That's what like you consume as like a regular person I understand that you know, we're all regular people here, but That's one thing you got to remember in the back of your mind guys But uh, yeah, it's also tough because I don't know what you want to do about that I mean real quick. Andrew. Do you feel empathy for white people because obviously if they drop from 81 percent in the 1990s And white people always say they love the 90s, right? Like I mean, I guess do you do you feel bad that? I guess it's difficult for them to adjust to this this new more diverse world Listen, I feel a little bit bad for them because I just think You know, they just have the most to lose to be honest, but what I will say this is like as other minorities I don't think we need to throw it in their face every time we get a win Like just because there is a black mermaid and she fits the role and she kills it She sings a song she has an amazing voice and she's cute too. It's like Like don't like you don't have to see we got the black mermaid. You're not cool anymore white people blah blah blah blah Same with Asians, you know, obviously I know that there's that feeling as a minority because we get made fun of growing up and we want to clap back We feel like whites and by the way guys, I understand not all whites won the game I'm just saying this as a general you're saying tell them all the white winners generalities here Uh, I get it, you know, some white people in appellations, you know, all the opioids and stuff is crazy They're living in trailer parks. I get it. You know, for me when I was growing up in the 80s and 90s I always felt like some white people and I'm obviously I'm not saying all white people I understand there's a huge gigantic variation You know, you got your m&m's then you got your Taylor Swift and your gordon geckos and everything in between I'm just saying like I feel like as minorities if we're starting to like win, right? I don't want to be sore winners Just like I didn't want to be sore losers And just like even if we thought that white people were and I don't think they all were somewhere and somewhere They were sore winners of the last like a hundred or 200 years I don't think that we need to like return them the favor to get them back because I don't think that builds a productive society For everybody to live together cohesively moving forward I got it andrew every race should just play every single race But try their hardest to do a 10 out of 10 job in terms of passion and research What david you're saying that if someone gets cast that they should just respect the role in the culture that they're taking on Yeah, I think that the thing that a lot of people didn't like is because white people used to take minority roles But they fully wouldn't respect the minority aspects of it. I don't think till the swinton Gives it ish about asian culture. You know what? I mean or does she eat to bet and momos? I don't know. Yeah, so I just think if we actually had the real love and respect and the research and the passion for each Other's diversity then we could understand that yeah Maybe these things we eat different things or we communicate slightly differently or some of us are more introverted Some of us are more extroverted, but at the end of the day. Yeah, maybe we all don't want to live in a country That's run by like 10 corporations Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. Also. I really think that there should be like Really well put together and well funded discussions of very very smart people coming together And sometimes I don't like these discussions. That's happening on the tiktok comment section man. I think like The government organizations need to sponsor some of these convos dude I hate that cnn and fox news Sprinkle in shallow tier racial discussions like amongst the evening news I think that that is ridiculous. By the way, of course I know understand there's a need for racial reconciliation and racial understanding in america. However, it does not need to take place on two polarized Channels running ads it needs to be successful people with a lot of reps and a lot of education mixed We want need like somebody who's on the left right middle of every single color and every single creed to talk it out on a forum Like literally however, we're doing it right now is creating more division I generally disagree with my massage therapist who was white But I do agree with him that one point that the media Is not helping. All right, everybody. Let us know in the comments down below what you thought about this video Is this a big deal? Why did the little mermaid just spark such a big like race debate? And who's right or who's wrong? Just leave your opinion down below. 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